How to Effectively Answer IGCSE Global Perspectives Question 4

um this is igcs Global Perspective um so quickly we're going to have a quick run through on how you can answer the uh

question four um that have to do with evaluation of cost of action this is a 20 mark

question so quickly this is how question four comes out um in this case they said the government want to reduce hunger for

people living in poverty and the following actions so you see we're looking at cost of actions which are

more like proposed solution to an issue are being considered and one of it is to provide free food in areas of poverty

now invest in new farming Technologies and train people to grow and sell food in the local area now you just have to

choose one of these options so um any of the option you choose is correct depending on how you could um explain it

in detail to get get the full 20 marks so there are certain criterias we're going to look at that if you do you

definitely get 20 marks now there say which one of these actions uh would you recommend to the government and why so

that's that's that's the basic thing why will you choose any of these C of action so that's what we're looking

at um now this is this question is based on um you definitely need to get evidence from your sources so you look

at from Source One to Source Four can be used in um this particular question now there's this is this is the criteria

here so IED tell my student that you just need to know how to analyze this content here to get your 20 marks now

they said in your answer you should State your recommendation so this is more like in paragraph format try to

make sure your work is properly presented now your first parag gra should be your recommendation should be

your recommendation so you should should be your recommendation sorry so in your recommendation you

should just select one of these options that's all so you're done with this now here we begin to enter the tricky part

where they say you should give reasons and evidence to support your choice now here is is quite simple so your second

paragraph should follow up with you should Now give me the advantages should give me the

advantages of your choice or of your option now you should give me at least you we should be looking at two

advantages of your choice and you should give me at least one possible one possible disadvantage of your

choice now this will make sure that you're looking at um counter argument that's that's

it now after you've done that the if you look at this now they said you should consider

different argument and perspective and you should always use the source material

and your own idea so as you're stating the advantages and disadvantages always use what source

materials so the source materials we talking about here should be possibly you you able to pick an advantage from

Source One so you should be able to State it you should be able to state if you got an advantage from Source two you

should be able to state if you get from Source three disadvantage whichever so make sure you make reference to the

sources as you explain the content for your answer now the third major paragraph we look at is you should also

look at the other choices so looking at the other choices help you to develop different perspectives so if you pick

this as your first you should also look at this and this so you look at the other uh and choices that you did not

pick so you look at the other choices now when looking at the other choices what you should do is you look at the

advantage and also the disadvantage if you can and if possible because you know this is time you should be time

conscious if you can give one advantage and possibly two

disadvantage of these other two choices now that should make up possibly your third and fourth paragraph if you can

combine them using collectives in your third paragraph to that

okay then immediately after that you need to now remember you want to recommend your choice and you want to

convince whoever you're given this course of action to choose it so your fourth paragraph you should look at why

your choice is the most significant why your choice is the most significant

Miss significant after that if you if you don't know how to explain the most

significant please you can check um how to answer question number one I think is there I explained that earlier so the

fifth paragraph you should now talk about the acceptability

acceptability of your choice so here you should tell us how it can be implemented possibly step by-step guide

of how it can be implemented so here you can talk about um some potential

conflict that can result from you or from you uh implementing your choice and here you should also try to talk about

the cost of implementation so and also you should try to talk about time if it to take a

long time or short time now this structure is quite I've found out that over time is quite difficult

for some student to structure their work in this format but it's really really quite easy this is all you need to do

now see a format have been able to arrange it in this format uh using for the 20 marks so the first paragraph is

your recommendation so my recommendation is you state it to justify I will now so that's how you should start it then the

second paragraph is that you tell us the positive impact of your choice you can tell us how it impacts the environment

uh you should always include citation from the insert and you should also give us one potential uh uh uh counter

argument that can result from from your choice so you can look at the way I structure the second paragraph the third

one you look at the other options the fourth one you look at the second other option you give your reasons the

advantages and disadvantages of the two options then you now tell us how significant your choice is now the

significance of your choice is that it affect the greatest number of people locally nationally globally and

culturally then you should be able to tell us how it affect people within that Dimension that will also introduce the

concept of different perspective now you tell us your choice why will it be accepted that in the acceptability and

implementation there you talk about time you talk about cost you can talk about um possible potential conflict you

should talk about people that also might be involved in the implementation process now once you

do that you conclude you talk about how your advantages overlap your disadvantages and why your choice is

better that's all that is all now always always remember always use evidence from the

insert and your own idea very important anytime you do not use evidence or your own idea it means the third criteria

here have not been accomplished and what is it use material from sources and any of your own idea so you should do

that now this is a sample candidate answer to to to to to for the 20 mark question he said said to reduce hunger

for people living in poverty I would advise the government to train people to grow and sell food in local areas now

that is their option now training people provide long term that's time um blah blah blah blah blah it is

sustainable training gives the skill that so here they trying to explain why it is the most significant why their

option is the best so that is what this question is all about now this action has the most impact so

if you look at the second paragraph here they've moved to most impact so most significant here they've spoken about

advantages disadvantages of their choice now when you move you see here they've moved to talking about the other choices

these are the other two choices the advantages and disadvantages of the other two choices been explained now if

you read through you see here they've mentioned Source two so they mentioned they use different sources and they use

examples from their own idea on how uh uh they can profile solution or a cuse of action to a particular problem now

that is it now look at the content that the examiner have in the max scheme to assess your work now reference to scale

of impact so when explaining scale of impact remember this scale of impact you

talk about it at in your most significant aspect So when you say most significant

is the most significant the greatest impact it affect most people it create a vicious cycle it has a lot of

consequences so reference to different consequences you still talk about that in your most

significant now how long it takes so this should be under uh implementation acceptability of your choice barrier to

change this should be under potential conflict potential conflict so people that might

go against the implementation the influence on individual and group in making decisions so that should be under

most significant when you talk about it affect people locally nationally globally the role of vested interest and

power differences that should also be on most significant so that's it then potential conflict of Interest so that

should be under why it is most significant because mention potential conflict there difficulty in planning

this should be under your implementation and cost okay we mentioned that also and resource so once you explain it in this

aspect you get your full Mark always always remember to include your what source evidence Source from the inser

from Source One to sour five thank you